Catering
Our kitchen, delivered to yours.
We cater the way we'd want to be catered for: food that turns up when it said it would, set out so people can help themselves, and good enough that somebody asks where it came from.
Breakfast meetings, office lunches, birthdays, wakes, launch nights. If you can tell us roughly how many and roughly when, we can usually work out the rest.
How it works
- Tell us the date, the headcount and anything anyone can't eat. That's enough to start.
- We come back with a menu and a price — no deposit until you've seen both and said yes.
- We deliver, set it out, and leave it looking like somebody meant it.
Worth telling us
- Allergies and dietaries. There's a box for it below, and it goes straight onto the kitchen's sheet in red. Please use it rather than mentioning it in passing.
- Where it's actually going — the floor, the buzzer, whether there's a lift. That's the part that costs ten minutes on the day.
- Whether you need plates, napkins and serving spoons, or you've got them.
How much notice, and when it's paid
- Up to 20 people — 24 hours.
- More than 20 — 48 hours.
We make catering once it's paid, so that notice covers both: the order and the payment need to be in by then. You'll get an invoice you can pay by card or bank transfer, and the food is booked in the moment it clears.
Tighter than that, ask anyway. Send the form and then ring us — we'll tell you straight whether the kitchen has the room.
The box lunch menu
V vegetarian · VG vegan · GF gluten-free · GF* available gluten-free.
The Goldfinch
Catering Order Sheet
Individual boxed lunches. Each one is built around a sandwich, quiche or salad and includes kettle chips and a house-made cookie. Sauces and dressings are packed on the side so everything travels well.
The order
Sandwiches
BL1The Goldfinch Club
Applewood-smoked ham, manchego, hard-boiled egg, bacon, mixed greens, tomato, mustard aioli.
BL2The Filibuster
Braised shredded beef, shredded cheddar, pickled red onions, cabbage slaw with mustard dressing.
BL3The Havana Dandy
Braised pork, applewood ham, manchego, dill pickles, mustard aioli on a pressed torta roll. Our Cubano.
BL4The Diplomat (V)
Thick-cut panela seared with aleppo chile, agave-pickled jalapeños, mixed greens on a torta roll.
BL5The Lady Bird
Chilled pulled chicken in herbed aioli, fontina, tomato, pickled onions, mixed greens.
BL6The Rich Girl
Our riff on a shrimp po' boy: chilled white shrimp tossed in aleppo chile, cabbage slaw, pickled onions, chile mayo on a torta roll.
BL7The Farmer's Daughter (V, VG available)
Chilled roasted zucchini, guacamole de calabaza, white bean purée, salsa verde, pickled onions, mixed greens. Vegan without the calabaza crema.
Quiche
BL8The Roosevelt
Individually baked cowboy quiche: flaky crust, cheddar, roasted potato, egg and green chile. Served with a small side of greens in epazote vinaigrette.
BL9The Three Sisters (V)
Individually baked: flaky crust, white bean purée, roasted squash, corn, manchego, egg and caramelized onion. Served with a small side of greens in epazote vinaigrette.
Salads
BL10Et Tu, Brute? (GF*)
Romaine, pulled chicken, cotija, pepitas, blue corn tortilla strips, roasted jalapeño caesar dressing on the side. Our caesar, with heat.
BL11The Victory Garden (V, GF, VG without cotija)
Mixed greens, roasted zucchini, pickled onions, corn, cotija, pepitas, epazote vinaigrette on the side.
BL12The Spudnik (V, GF)
Roasted potato, fontina cheese, roasted zucchini, tomato, mixed greens, herbed aioli. Our take on potato salad, hearty enough as a vegetarian entrée.
Anything extra
- Sandwiches come on thick-cut sourdough unless the description says a torta roll. Either is available on any of them, and so is a gluten-free baguette.
- Gluten-Free Bun — add $1
- Filibuster Beef — add $8
- Rich Girl Shrimp — add $8
- Lady Bird Chicken — add $6
- Applewood Ham — add $6
- Et Tu, Brute? comes with pulled chicken. Swap it for ham at no charge, or for beef or shrimp for $2.
Who's having what
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Printing it gives you an order sheet with the menu on it and space to write down who's having what — handy if you're taking the order round an office before you type it in.
Two ways to order
Order it yourself — pick a lunch for each person, name every box, done in a few minutes. Best when you already know what everyone wants.
Let everyone pick their own — tell us where it's going and send one link round the office. Everybody chooses their own and puts their name on it; you pay once at the end. Best when you don't fancy walking the floor with a sheet of paper.
Platters, a wedding, breakfast for forty, anything off this menu — that's a conversation rather than a form. Email catering@goldfinchdenver.com or ring us on (720) 576-1242 and we'll work it out with you.